Person Quotes

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.